System rebooted after Fan failure though hardware diagnostics did not reveal any issues with hardware.

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Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • kernel-2.6.18-238.45.1.el5
  • ProLiant DL380 G6

Issue

  • System rebooted after a Fan failure, following messages were logged in /var/log/messages
Jun  2 18:03:16 example hpasmlited[7706]: CRITICAL: Fan Failure (Fan 4, Location System)
Jun  2 18:03:16 example hpasmlited[7706]: A System Reboot has been requested by the management processor in 60 seconds

Resolution

As it is HP utility "hpasmlited" which detected the Fan failure and requested reboot, engage HP support to take their opinion as to why hpasmlited detected the Fan failure and rebooted the box when hardware diagnostics did not report any issues with fan.

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